Robert Moskowitz wrote:
This is something that has been long overdue for me to set up, and how I
am looking it hard in the face.
Back in '94, I was doing REAL X-Terminals into UNIX systems. Watching
simple mouse meanderings eat up all available bandwidth, and forget it
if you resized a window and had to download the new font.....
So here we are, in the modern times with GNOME (I chose that over KDE,
because), and Open Office, Thunderbird, and lots of other nice graphical
apps.
I want to run the apps on an app server and access them for a thin
client. I am familiar with the K12TLSP project, but right now I want to
see what I can do myself.
If you want to network-boot your client, k12ltsp is the easy way to go.
It also sets up the right defaults for remote X logins even if you don't
network boot.
What is the minimum X install for the server to run Open Office with the
only graphical usage the remote client?
Gdm needs to be configured to accept remote logins. I think there is a
way to disable X on the console while permitting it over the network but
I've always had trouble with that and just let the login box come up
unused on the console.
I well learned back in '91 when I started with TCP/IP, the TCP
Client/Server model and how X-Windows and SNMP ran 'backwards'. That is
your device was the Server and the device with the data/app was the
client. So in theory, all I would need to have on the Centos Apps
server is the X and Gnome client parts and some remote server (like XRDP)?
I have the test box sitting here, ready to run an install....
I think it would be so cool, to see my Gnome desktop from the apps
server running on my little old Libretto running DSL.
If you don't start X automatically on the remote, you can start it with:
X -query server_name
to log into the server and run the desktop from there.
You might also like freenx and the NX client. It is cross-platform, has
better remote performance over limited bandwidth, and allows you to
suspend and re-connect to running sessions.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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